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Keats; There was a Naughty Boy
THERE WAS A NAUGHTY BOY
(From a letter to Fanny Keats)
There was a naughty Boy,
And a naughty Boy was he,
He ran away to Scotland
The people for to see—
Then he found
That the ground
Was as hard,
That a yard*
Was as long,
That a song
Was as merry,
That a cherry
Was as red—
That lead'
Was as weighty,,
That fourscore"
Was as eighty,
That a door
Was as wooden
As in England—
So he stood in his shoes
And he wonder'd,
He wonder'd,
He stood in his shoes
And he wonder'd.
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JOHN KEATS